FARM AND GARDEN OPERATIOS FOR JUNE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4609, 1 June 1872, Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN OPERATIOS FOR JUNE.

Have plenty of succulent oats for milch cows. Sow winter wheat in dry weather two bushels to imperial acre ; steeped to prevent smut — one pound bluestono, seven gallons waterj steep ten or twelve hours. Store stock give hay in wet weather, and house them at night; boiled food, with a handful of salt, bettor for fattening pigs than green food. Hedges may be cut any time next three months ; this is the first rainy month. Pigs intended for bacon may now be killed. Open drains while the ground is soft} the water will show the fall. Sow oats on fern land which has lain fallow, two bushels to lewt. of guano per acre ; harrow the ground once before sowing, then harrow guano with seed ; when about three inches high pass the roller over it. Kitchen Garden,— Ground for parsnips, onions, and carrots, for following season, manure, trench up in a rough state so as the weather may act on it for a month or so. Tie up endive for blanching; gather leaves in one hand, then put two cabbage leaves round it, ' tie it with flax: will be fit to cut iv a fortnight.' Clear refuse of vacant ground and trench it up till spring. Sow cabbage, cauliflower, and lettuce for spring planting; they will not run to seed if sown this month j clear the aluga with lime. Sow a few red cabbage for pickling. Fruit Garden. — Plant fruit-trees end of this month. Trench two feet deep, then mix about one gallon bonedust with tho soil where each tree is to be planted ; let the bonedust extend a little beyond the roots, ifc will draw the roota towards it ; if the soil is poor one peck is not too much to one tree, incorporate well with the soil before planting; stake the trees and defer pruning till the sap begins to flow about September. Pruning is of great importance first year or two ; trees obtained from the nursery, planted and not pruned, make very little growth the first year, and many of the shoots die back, and throw out towards the autumn a number of watery shoots, half- ripened. Strawberries may now be planted on highly-manured, trenched soil, in rows two feet from row to row, and eighteen inches between each plant. Prune vines as soon as the loaves are shed. Trees established in tho soil may bo pruned. Raspberries and gooseberries put down on well-manured trenched soil. The ground - cropped with pumpkins, vegetable marrows', pie-melons, &c. Flower Garden. — Ttosea dress with, decomposed stable-yard manure ; if any are throwing up suckers cut in the roots and _ replant. This should be done every three years to ensure good blooms, the groundtrenched, manured, and a little fresh soil added. Plants to come in succession— crocus, narcissus, hyacinth, anemones ; flower borders dug, walks trimmed, creepers cut and tied in ; running roses cut back, espe- - cially old shoots that have a profusion of bloom. . Greenhouse.— Keep free circulation of air ; water eamelhas and azalias if the earth gets dry, set the plant in a pail of water till the soil gets thoroughly wetted ; forward cinerarias should be Bhifted ; pick off dead leaves; keep down insects by fumigating; vines should be drawn outside to harden and i rest the wood. Cyclamens, gesneria zebrina* epiphyllum, euphorbia, jaquiniflora, begonia, hendersonii, and sal vias will nowbttfn. flower: give water in the morning to prevent ! damp. Cacti tribe keep dry for a few weeka. — Chapman's Almanac.